Those deadly Navy Seal techniques look a lot like Thai boxing. Who knew?

9/13/2012 8:58am,

W. Rabbit

Yi Long is an impressive fighter and can take serious damage, but there is a big controversy about his origins. For years Youtube tardlets have been claiming he could not possibly be a real monk because he, you know...fights in the ring.

Regarding all the gossip about this Yi Long and the questions about Shaolin Kung Fu, a person in charge of Shaolin Temple's public communication updated his micro-blog on Dec. 24 and claimed that Yi Long is absolutely not a Shaolin monk and certainly not the "No. 1 Shaolin martial arts monk."

He also told Henan Commercial News that it is hard to judge whether Yi Long is a secular disciple of the Shaolin Temple because of the easy procedure of becoming such a member and the huge number of the Shaolin Temple's secular disciples.